Censorship, Censorship, censorship. Gays are supposed to beg for acceptance, not fight back. Download the book.
Google, X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, and Amazon refuse adds for "Disable, Defeat, Demolish Homophobic Christianity.
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The rejections
Google Rejected it.
I found out yesterday that Google advertising shutdown my book at in a few days. I was actually getting some type of interest, but it was shut down.
I wasn’t notified that it was shut down. I just found out when I did a follow up.
I had to do some digging. but I found out why my ad stopped working. The social media advertisers are very opaque in their explanations.
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X (formerly Twitter) Rejected it.
Elon Musk talks about mainstream media censorship, but that is how my advertisement was denied. Also, I didn’t get a notice that the ad was blocked. I found out when I did follow up.
The campaign went nowhere. Notice there is no indication that the campaign was shut down.
You have to do some digging to find that it has been halted.
Reddit rejected it.
Evidently resisting being victimized is considered by intolerant. The homophobic Christians can attack us, but we can’t complain.
I got an email from Reddit account person after this to place an ad and so I sent an email asking how might I place an ad for my book. Never heard back.
Looking at the ads on Reddit they seem to want only bland stuff. That doesn’t mean they don’t advertise homophobic groups. Though the following groups tries to pass itself off as all love and sweetness, behind it is homophobic Christians. I will put the report at the end of this post.
Amazon Rejected the Kindle and it rejected the add for the paperback.
You can order the book, I can’t advertise it. If know one knows about the book it won’t sell and if it isn’t selling it won’t be displayed on the first few pages of the Amazon search results so it won’t be selling.
Kindle
Amazon tells you the ad will take 72 hours to approve, but mine was over 100 hours, I waited 6 days, so it was roughly 140 hours. It was rejected, but I got very opaque replies. Finally they said that the Kindle was a personal experience and that they didn’t want to run ads in the kindle. I had to do a lot of back and forth to get an answer.
However, I think that this is just an excuse. [Will have an important update here.]
Paperback
This ad placement again took some time. They said it takes 72 hours, but it took from 1/27/2024 to rejection early morning 2/2/2024. About five or six days. Again, very vague on why they rejected this. I am supposed to read a policy and then guess what it might be.
Homophobic books for which Amazon accepts sponsorship ads.
It is an anti-Gay Christian book urging Gay Christians to reject acting on being homosexuL From the ad: “With clarity and grace, he helps you discover the remarkable gifts God provides to the Christian who struggles with same-sex attraction and desires to faithfully follow Jesus.”
This is a book where people with “same-sex” attraction are not to supposed to adopt the idea that they are Gay and not to have a Gay identity.
He is at Christian Regent University.
This is article about him in the Lee Clarion which is the student run newspaper at Lee University.
Yarhouse considers himself to be theologically conservative, and while he uses a 'disability lens' to view the existence of homosexuality, he employs an 'integrity lens' when it comes to the lifestyle choices of sexual minorities, believing same-sex intimacy to be sinful.
Lee University is some really small university which is anti-Gay.
https://www.leeuniversity.edu/
Weeping whining Gays can get their book sponsored.
From the book description:
People who read this book will come away with a renewed sense of gratitude for God’s Grace. They can gain a clearer picture of the challenging and rewarding journey of faith available as believers who struggle with their sexual and relational desires.
The other books that get sponsored are either weepy Gay Christian books or the pernicious “love the sinner hate the sin,” type books.
Conclusion
The establishment will accept Gays begging for acceptance, but not fighting back. I am finding more and more the following is the attitude of many who purport to be our friends.
I am not giving up. It just isn’t easy as I thought it would be. This attempting to run ads in social media and Amazon has wasted over a month of my time.
I did purchase 105 copies so I would have physical copies if Amazon refused to sell the book. I had a couple people purchase the book to verify that it would be sold to others. There are various types of shadow banning.
I don’t want to just hand out the books. A free book is an unread book.
I did contact the American Atheists to advertise it in their magazine. I am finding some atheist groups not liking it because they want to have atheism be a theoretical debate, sometimes they are explicitly homophobic, sometimes we aren’t supposed to be wanting to fight. I think this book will help make it clear who is who.
You can download the pdf here.
https://issuu.com/edwardh.sebesta/docs/issue_pdf_paper_on_fighting_back_against_homophobi
The links for the Kindle and paperback are in this post.
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